Recent studies in early mathematics education highlight the importance of patterning abilities and their influence on mathematics learning and the development of mathematical reasoning in young children. This paper focuses on young children's repeating patterning abilities and reports results from an ongoing four-year longitudinal study that…

This paper compares the counting and whole number knowledge and skills of primary school children in Australia and Germany at the end of Grade 1 and Grade 2. Children's learning was assessed using the Early Numeracy Interview and associated Growth Point Framework. The findings highlight substantial differences between the two groups that vary for…

This paper examines the cultural context of day care in Germany and examines the quality of child care within the wider context of child care and education, especially with regard to values defining the roles of families with young children in society. Even parents who use child care question its advantages. Seeking child care is often an…

The problems encountered in kindergarten in the eastern and western parts of the reunited Germany differ enormously. In the east, kindergartens and day care facilities are being closed for economic reasons; in the west, there is a lack of kindergartens and care facilities. There is a great deal of public interest in, and political controversy…